sketchbook 2.0 (start of journey page #3)

[Saurabhinator]

nice collection of studies! Your photo studies display a nice study of the colours, but i believe more time needs to be spent on the drawing end of things rather than the painting end.

Keep it up man. :p

[Miss.BonBon]

what a sketchbook! i donno where to begin! yourlines and pencil studies or your great painting skills or your character designs
i really love your still life paintings , it's really inspiring and it makes me wanna do some
also your pencil lines and your rendering skill is awesome, keep those anatomy studies up! very impressive , especially those figure painting you have done, and those character design you're doing is full of creativity.
your knowledge of form and anatomy combined with that painting skill and good observation and your creative mind will lead you to a professional concept artist keep it up

[kitfox]

A lot of studies, good! Arms from the mind are looking nice, but there's something off with your head construction. Not quite sure what but might be the jaw line start from too far back, or the back of the head not being big enough.

Stay on course! Try to form concepts that you can easily remember, it'll help a ton when working from the mind.

[DTP]

knut- thankyou, ill try that!
Saurabhinator i agree, drawing is my weaker spot. ill get some more pencils done
Miss.BonBon thankyou very much!
kitfox yeah my heads really suck, its kind of annoying. they're alot better then before, but something still hasnt clicked yet and somethings making look weird, ill try and study more haha.

Busy with family wedding prep. So not much, its on tomorrow so no update then either. Free most next week to study though, yay!

WIP from mind, trying to use my studies for something...


WIP teen challange

[kitfox]

Anatomy studies are paying off, things are moving along. The Teen Challenge WIP looks nice, could add some other sealife and hints of the bottom of the sea. Rocks and coral and such, will make a nice painting.

Good job again, keep working hard!

[yogeshj25]

wow freaking awesome studies! Really good work mate! keep it up!

[Not_Deadman]

Lovely colors on the red head, pose is a little stiff imo... I think i have the same exact problem; i have no idea wat to do with the feet to make it cool and balanced.
The sea creature looks amazing, maybe add a few more to give even more depth and make it look like a cool big group of watever it is? Lol
Cant wait to see wat you got cookin next!

[metalhead3]

really sweet paintings! The Teen challenge looks great. Maybe add a little more..contrast to emphasize the whales?

[Miss.BonBon]

love these paintings, your color selection is really good as well as your design
keep working!

[DTP]

kitfox awesome! kinda forgot about the teen chall and didnt finish it ;(
yogeshj25 thanks!
Not_Deadman thanks, yeah me too! my poses are so stiff and boring D:
metalhead3 its gone and i didnt finish it now :'( ohwell hah.

Got my ass up at 7am this morning so i can draw n stuff all day. Didn't get as much drawing done as i could have. Tomorrow i will!!!

Studies i got bored of and fucked up..


morning warm-up, strong belwas from ASoIaF. Looks nothig like what i imagined and the values/colour SUCK MY BALLS (might re-try and tomorrow)


And finally a painting of my group of mates im fairly happy with.

[kitfox]

The figure drawings this time are really nice. The faces still don't look as good, though. The zombie apocalypse is good stuff, hehe. Keep it up!

[Miss.BonBon]

yeah really love your figure drawings, especially that rendered girl from the last page;and also those portraits looks fine just keep practicing, please don't give up
just something about that big guy you painted bothering me is that it seems to me the direction of his body's upper half doesn't mach the direction of his lower half which include the legs and feet, maybe it's just me
keep working!

[Trailblazer]

Woah you've got some really good stuff going on here I'm loving your WIP of the chick and your zombies. Really great to see all your studies paying off. Well done. Makes me want to go sit down and draw all day.

[DTP]

kitfox thanks. gah faces again D: ill nail them eventually!
Miss.BonBon totally right, he's really skewed
Trailblazer thanks i keep reaching my limitation of knowledge everytime i try to start something though gahhhh D:


Been totally un-productive since my parents drove me back home and i hung out with my mates for the rest of the week D:
Done some studies too, but cba to scan them right now, sometime later...

Study thing, had no motivation so had to push through wanting to close photoshop lol. bout an hour or somefin'


need to try and get better at modelling before uni starts as well, since i realize i made a clusterfuck of a mistake, and by 'game art' my uni means 'game modelling'...so yea, pretty pissed off, considering that's not what i want to do

[kitfox]

Good job on the painted figure, especially for an hour's work.

I don't think you should give up on game modeling yet. See what you can do with it. Have you ever heard of Montyoum? He does some crazy cool modeling and animation stuff. You can check his stuff out on his deviant account or his youtube page. Maybe game modeling doesn't sound as much fun but, I gotta admit there's some really nice things you can do with it.

[Not_Deadman]

Your pencils are looking amazing! And your painting studies are lookin boss too!

[Miss.BonBon]

that speed painting of yours is kicking ass! very well done on colors and the rendering is great too !

[DTP]

kitfox yeah i actually kinda like modeling, but its just not what i wanna do :c like, i wanna learn 2d art and do that on the side maybe...i duno.
Not_Deadman thanks....I WISH
Miss.BonBon thanks

(insert talking here)

[kitfox]

The portait is very good. Could use more details if you wanted to push it, but the base is very nice, and the expression works. Good proportions.

The painted character is nicely in perspective. Try some more complicated poses and keep the perspective?

Figure studies are coming along. Proportions are quite good, but the muscles need more work. Add a bit of shading to show form on your figures, or cross contours. The lines of understanding that run on the form might feel a little obvious sometimes, but I think it makes it easier to understand the forms. Like seeing an object and actually touching it, feeling around the forms.

The light&shadow figure study is very nice! Proportions and all! Keep it up!

[DTP]

reply later. gotta be fast...

from tonight : arms.

studies, then mind, then studies, then mind.. and so on...

[kitfox]

Good arm studies! Have you studied how the muscles of the forearm move when the wrist turns? It's quite easy to understand when you know on which side of the wrist the muscles attach to.

[Not_Deadman]

those bridgeman studies are so sexy /drool

[Miss.BonBon]

cool bridgman studies! and lots of it! @_@
I love the way you draw figures, nice style, especially that 1 hour study figure which you shaded
and that portrait painting is great, I guess drawing that expression was kinda tricky

[DTP]

kitfox Read a bit out them but i need to go back to it yeah, i think it'll help alot!
Not_Deadman lol thanks
Miss.BonBon Cheers. In regards to the portrait its always daunting to paint something like that, for example the lips dont look like the lips we see everyday or the image we get in out mind if we thought about it. The thing to do is forget what the object is and think of it as a simple geometric shape.

Back from a holiday. Haven't drawn in about 12 days D: Feels awesome getting back to my tablet though haha this was just the break i needed and was waking me yearn to draw

Maybe 3ish hours but it only felt like 30 mins. Time travel.

[kitfox]

A very nice portrait! Way to get back from a vacation. Form is defined very well and the expression looks natural. The subtle color changes look very sleek. What more can I say? As far as technique goes, good job. Could've pushed the hair a bit more and cleaned up the edges.

[DTP]

kitfox cheers i see what you mean about the hair, i think there was more contrast in the .psd but it could have done with a little more care anyways.

Did a page of pencils but ill scan it tomorrow when i do more...

Started an illustration, duno what to-do now but continue rendering, i duno if that will make it better though D:


Some multi-limb things from mind



Quick cloud

[kitfox]

Rendering the illustration probably won't help much. Seems like it suffers from too many random elements and a bad composition. Going back to the thumbnail stage and really planning out the whole thing would be the most useful thing to do. Though, I don't know that much about the process yet. That's what I'd do anyway.

The multi-limb figures are pretty good proportion wise, but could use a bit longer neck and legs. Since they're females, keep the ridcage slimmer and the hips a little wider to make them more feminine. Another thing that'll help is to keep the contours very subtle. With male figures you can exaggerate and bring out the muscles in the contours but with females you really can't do much without making them too bulky. I like the simple value style you put on them, seems to work nicely for a quick sketch.

The colours on the quick cloud appear a bit dark for such a clear sky.

[Not_Deadman]

I agree with kit, you should reconsider the composition, my biggest problem with the painting is the angle... maybe make it a worm's eye view with the lumberjack looking at this giant, or maybe a helicopter shot of the giant looking down on the woods and the lumberjack.
http://www.leavemethewhite.com/index2.html Study some compositional stuff from this site... it's got tons of good movie screenshots!
And for the figure drawings, I agree with kit again, make their necks a bit longer and fix the ribcage/hips proportions. Also, I think you can make their ankles more slender and rounder?

[Miss.BonBon]

As kitfox and not deadman mentioned, you could use a better composition for your illustration to make it more interesting. Also the guy's pose should be stressed and ready for a fight, to show the tension

the multi-limb figure looks good to me, though the legs are a little short, but other things look ok to me. In general women hips are wider than their shoulders but I don't think every drawing should follow that rule exactly, some times our female characters have some manly attributes and we don't want them to look so girlish that's just my opinion

I love the landscape, love your use of the brushes expressionistically

and last but not least great portrait in post #144, love it

[Trailblazer]

Hey man been a while . Your studies seem to be going well it's nice to see you doing your own work to. Sucks about your course tho. Time to come back and start the posting again mate.